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Maximizing Voting Power Fairly
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| Hey everybody, Tan Charlie Kirk Show. | |
| Kurt Schlichter joins the program. | |
| We also have Tim Ballard. | |
| Very important conversation about child sex trafficking. | |
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| Welcome back, everybody. | |
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| There's a lot happening, and so I like having smart people come on and we can kind of just riff and see where the conversation takes us. | |
| Kurt Schlichter is with us. | |
| He is the author of several books. | |
| We'll have him plug those throughout our conversation as senior columnist at townhall.com. | |
| Kurt, thank you for joining the show. | |
| So let's just start with the big picture. | |
| Do you think that there might be a regime change push to get rid of Joe Biden? | |
| Are you seeing in the whispers and the wind, the vibrations in your home state of California that Gavin Newsom might be wanting to come in here? | |
| Or is Joe Biden, you think, going to survive this one? | |
| Kurt Schlichter. | |
| Look, Gavin Newsom is lurking on the sideline, waiting to see any hint of weakness. | |
| And there's a lot of hints of weak. | |
| My feeling is that the Democrats believe that Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump. | |
| So if we nominate Trump, Biden won't go anywhere. | |
| If we don't nominate Donald Trump, I think Biden's days as president are numbered. | |
| And I think it will be my governor, Governor Hairstyle, trying to slide on in ahead of Camelot, which will be a nice fight. | |
| I'd like to see that octagon. | |
| Yeah, so if there's a switch afoot, we will start. | |
| The timeline is running out in that way. | |
| Joe Biden is facing some serious concerns from these recent text messages. | |
| Do you think it's time to impeach Joe Biden? | |
| Is there any counter argument to that, Kurt? | |
| I mean, you're a lawyer used to arguing both sides. | |
| Do you think it's a good idea, or do you think that we could get a little too ahead of ourselves, too excited, and end up making him the victim and making it look too political? | |
| Well, look, I think that's a huge possibility because you'll have the regime media out there cheerleading for his bribery and corruption. | |
| You've got to understand that this is not the elite media cultural environment that we had, say, 50 years ago, where everyone was kind of agreed that corruption is bad. | |
| Right now, our ruling class thinks, yeah, corruption is bad, I guess. | |
| But you know what's worse? | |
| Mean tweet. | |
| And they are literally willing to overlook manifest corruption in order to keep a Republican out. | |
| And we've got to understand, it's not the same world that, you know, I'm older than you, that I grew up. | |
| It's an entirely different one where there really are no firm rules. | |
| They are fine with his corruption as long as they maintain power. | |
| Yeah, that certainly seems to be that way. | |
| And so I want to play a piece of tape here and get your reaction, Kurt. | |
| Let's go to cut four, Peter Schweiser play cut four. | |
| Breaking news on a cell phone that Joe Biden was using. | |
| Tell us about that. | |
| It's interesting. | |
| What is the line of communications between Hunter Biden and his business partners and Joe Biden when he's vice president of the United States? | |
| It's not the government phone. | |
| It's not Joe Biden's personal phone. | |
| We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden's business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he was vice president. | |
| It was from AT ⁇ T. | |
| It was $300 a month. | |
| It was a global phone where you could access somebody anywhere around the world. | |
| And that may be the phone, for example, that the Ukrainian, the Burisma executive might have used in this allegation that he talked to Joe Biden in recorded conversations. | |
| So this is heating up, Kurt. | |
| Yes. | |
| Is this in a general election? | |
| How does he possibly navigate this? | |
| Are they just in a place where they truly do not care and they're just going to push forward with the machine they've built in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, et cetera? | |
| No, they're going to push forward. | |
| They don't care. | |
| Their response to, you know, hey, here's a giant evidence, you know, pile of evidence showing manifest corruption is, well, you Republicans are going to keep us from aborting our babies and be mean to trans. | |
| That's what they're going to do. | |
| Charlie, they don't care. | |
| It's okay if he's corrupt. | |
| They prefer that to losing power. | |
| Yeah, they have religious attachment to these issues, especially the gay issue and the abortion issue. | |
| So they're willing to cover up any form of corruption or just swallow it for those particular issues. | |
| So Kurt, I know that you, I'm reading some of your Twitter commentary and some of your columns. | |
| I know that you haven't endorsed anybody yet, but you have some concerns about if President Trump is the nominee. | |
| I personally am behind Donald Trump, but please feel free to speak openly, Kurt, to our audience of where you're leaning and the prospects of winning, because I know that winning is the most important thing for you. | |
| What are your thoughts on who you think we should nominate? | |
| Well, first of all, I think it's important that we have a real primary where we discuss real issues. | |
| And I have very many close friends who can articulate very good arguments in favor of Donald Trump. | |
| My 100% key issue is electability. | |
| I think Donald Trump has very, very, very tough roads to owe to winning in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, et cetera. | |
| And electability is my key issue. | |
| I'm not endorsing anybody. | |
| I don't think anybody needs some funding coming around telling them what to do. | |
| I'm just sharing my thought process. | |
| And my thought process is we should nominate somebody who is likely to win the general. | |
| I think Donald Trump's going to have difficulty in the general. | |
| And I like Trump a lot. | |
| So if, so elaborate on that, though, Kurt. | |
| So likely difficulty, why? | |
| And what other candidate do you think might have a higher likelihood? | |
| Well, we saw huge difficulties in 2020 and in 2022. | |
| Pennsylvania is moving bluer. | |
| Michigan is moving bluer. | |
| Georgia voters have not only rejected Donald Trump, but they've rejected his candidate. | |
| Now, I don't have to like that. | |
| I don't have to agree with that. | |
| I would love to have had Senator Herschel Walker. | |
| I think he'd make a great addition to Congress. | |
| But I'm not a Georgia voter. | |
| And the Georgia voters are going to do what the Georgia voters are going to do. | |
| The Arizona voters have shown that they don't really care for Donald Trump or people Donald Trump select. | |
| Again, is it right or wrong? | |
| That's not the issue. | |
| This isn't personal. | |
| This is only business. | |
| I'm out to win. | |
| And my argument is find the guy who's most likely to win. | |
| Now, the obvious second choice is Ron DeSantis. | |
| I think some polling has shown that Ron DeSantis has a chance to win back some voters who I think wrongly are alienated from Donald Trump. | |
| And again, I will vote for Donald Trump in the general happily. | |
| And if you came to me and said right now, Kurt, I will. | |
| You can absolutely have Donald Trump as the winner in the next general election. | |
| I would take that bet in heart. | |
| Yes. | |
| But the fact is, there are a bunch of people out there who will never vote for Donald Trump. | |
| And you're not going to talk him out of it. | |
| And is it right or wrong? | |
| Doesn't matter. | |
| It's the facts on the ground. | |
| And I'm looking at it like an Army guy. | |
| I'm looking at it like a lawyer. | |
| I have to deal with the facts that are presented. | |
| And right now, I think Donald Trump has a very, very, not impossible, but a very tough road to winning reelection in 2024. | |
| Right now, there's a poll, Kurt. | |
| I want you to comment on it: that 74% of the country thinks we are on the wrong track. | |
| If we can't win in this climate, Kurt, we can't win ever. | |
| I mean, basically, the whole country agrees we're headed to hell and quickly. | |
| What the hell are the other 26% smoking? | |
| I don't understand anybody who thinks we're on the right track right now. | |
| The problem, the challenge for Donald Trump is some people hate him irrationally. | |
| And a rational person is going to vote Joe Biden out and bring somebody like Donald Trump in, who has a terrific record as president. | |
| Not perfect, but terrific. | |
| And I would take him again in a heartbeat. | |
| But people are not rational actors all the time. | |
| My concern is we have to win. | |
| So my criteria is 100%. | |
| Who do I think is more likely to win? | |
| Right now, I think Donald Trump is less likely to win than some other candidate. | |
| That's just my assessment. | |
| That's what I think. | |
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| The question is: how do we win in 2024? | |
| Let's play some tape here. | |
| Play cut nine. | |
| Just 20% of voters believe this country is heading in the right direction. | |
| 74% say the nation is on the wrong track. | |
| Let me tell you something about this moment. | |
| We have had this sustained period of 70% about a year now. | |
| The last two periods in the history of this poll that we've had this kind of sustained negativity about the direction of the country was before the 92 election and before the 2008 election. | |
| Both of those changed the party controlling the White House. | |
| It looks like, Kurt, we're building towards a wave election. | |
| Will we be able to get our pieces together to actually see that materialize? | |
| Well, that's a great question, Charlie, and I'm very, very concerned about it. | |
| You know, I'm a retired colonel and I understand that amateurs talk tactics, but professionals nail down their logistics first. | |
| I want to know what's going on with building ground games in those battleground states we talked about. | |
| I want to know what's going on with getting the legal fight underway to shape that battle space months before the election. | |
| I remember when I rolled into Nevada the night after the 2020 election to help lawyer at the request of Rick Rinnell, there was one RNC lawyer on hand, one. | |
| That's not enough. | |
| I want to see an infrastructure on the ground to support whoever the people of our party nominate, because I know I'm going to back whoever we nominate 110%. | |
| But you can't win if you don't have an infrastructure in place that turns out votes, that energizes voters, that handles the legal aspects, that handles the money aspect. | |
| That's what I'm worried about now. | |
| Whether Donald Trump can handle the expressing his ideas. | |
| Marl DeSantis can handle expressing his ideas. | |
| Some of the other candidates can do that too. | |
| Some of them probably can't. | |
| I'm not worried about that. | |
| And I'm not worried about our ideas. | |
| I'm worried about putting those ideas into effect by having a strong logistic base and administrative framework set up to maximize our voting power fairly and legally. | |
| Kurt, are you seeing any evidence that those investments are happening or any confidence that we can go up against the $1.8 billion the Democrats plan to spend on ballot chasing, signature verification, early voting? | |
| Are you seeing those kind of investments? | |
| I'm not. | |
| And that works. | |
| I think some of it's happening, but I don't know. | |
| I would love to see Rona McDaniel and the RNC come out and reassure us with a specific plan. | |
| Whenever I hear from her, it's always cliches and policy. | |
| I don't care what she thinks about policy, not electing her anything. | |
| Okay. | |
| I want to know how many lawyers are you going to have in Milwaukee? | |
| And when are they going to be there and who's in charge and what do they have to back them up? | |
| How many door knockers do you have in Georgia? | |
| Those are the kind of questions I want answered. | |
| And I don't see it's so easy. | |
| You know, Charlie, when I was commanding American Soldiers, I made sure they knew what was going on. | |
| They knew where my mind was at. | |
| So they knew what I was going to do so they could have confidence in their leaders. | |
| And you know what? | |
| It worked. | |
| If you trust the Republican base with the knowledge and information about our strategy, they're going to come through for you. | |
| But you got to do it. | |
| There's no more, no more smoke-filled rooms. | |
| No more, well, you know, we don't have to tell anybody. | |
| No more blowing off guys like Scott President. | |
| You need to reach out to the base and energize us. | |
| We're asking for it. | |
| It's right there. | |
| All we got to do is take it. | |
| It's a question of where is the money being spent. | |
| And right now, the money is being spent on an unbelievably expensive primary with well over a dozen candidates now running, and it's going to be $1 billion spent. | |
| Makes you wonder, is that the best investment? | |
| Kurt, we're out of time. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Thanks for having me, Charlie. | |
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The Importance of NADH
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| Are you feeling burned out and a little tired? | |
| Look, I want to tell you about something that I've become a big believer in. | |
| And if you do not know about it, you got to research it. | |
| You could fact check me. | |
| It's NAD. | |
| NAD is a precursor for your body to be able to create ATP, which is basically the life force of everything that you do. | |
| And look, there's a lot of people out there that are promising energy and doing all this, but go do some research on NAD and go see actually how incredibly important it is for high performance to be able to go actually get it to the next level. | |
| And so what does NAD stand for? | |
| Well, try to take a note here. | |
| It is nicotinamide adenonide dinucleotide. | |
| I did that pretty well, don't you think? | |
| NAD. | |
| It's a coenzyme that is central to metabolism. | |
| Again, don't take my word for it. | |
| Go watch a YouTube video or two or three or four and go fact check me on it. | |
| I've been taking NAD for quite some time. | |
| And people say, Charlie, how do you travel 2,700 days in a decade? | |
| How do you do the 300 days a year? | |
| How do you do that? | |
| Look, it's not only because of this. | |
| I eat well and do other things as well. | |
| But if you look at NADH, especially when it combines with CoQ10 and marine collagen, it boosts your body's cellular function. | |
| I would never tell you guys to go do something I myself did not do. | |
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| When you combine them together, you get mental clarity. | |
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| It's not just that. | |
| It's for vitality. | |
| It helps your immune system. | |
| It's all good stuff. | |
| So go to strongcell.com forward slash Charlie today and see for yourself. | |
| It's not a stimulant. | |
| It doesn't contain any caffeine. | |
| I'm talking about overall health from the cellular level. | |
| NADH has been called the anti-aging enzyme that helps with so many issues like brain fog, short-term memory loss, blood pressure, heart disease, blood sugar retention, and so much more. | |
| And look, it's not a magic pill. | |
| It's like, oh, I'm going to start taking this and I'm going to be super smart. | |
| No, no, it's an additive, an amplifier on people that want to get better. | |
| But I can tell you, it makes a big difference. | |
| I've personally seen undeniable benefits from taking Strong Cell and engaging with NAD every day. | |
| So I had to partner with them. | |
| I vetted them. | |
| I checked out their ingredient profile. | |
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| NAD is your body's ability to create ATP. | |
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Child Sex Trafficking Crisis
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| Okay, a very important topic that we've touched on before in this program, but not enough. | |
| And it's something that I really want to dive into is child sex trafficking. | |
| And it is getting more and more attention, praise God, not from the left. | |
| They don't care. | |
| Wonder why. | |
| But Tim Ballard, who runs Operation Underground Railroad, is with us. | |
| The website, if you want to check it out, is ourrescue.org. | |
| Tim, welcome to the program. | |
| Tell us about the effort that you are leading. | |
| Thanks so much, Charlie. | |
| Yeah, like you said, this is a major problem. | |
| This is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. | |
| Millions of children. | |
| Department of Labor has it at 6 million. | |
| Sex trafficking, labor trafficking, organ harvesting, even. | |
| So I run actually two organizations. | |
| I run the Nazarene Fund. | |
| I'm the CEO there. | |
| Glenn Beck founded that. | |
| He sits on the board. | |
| And we do anti-trafficking work mostly in the Middle East and in Africa. | |
| And then I founded Operation Underground Railroad, and we're all over the world working with law enforcement, extracting children, getting them restored, and trying to raise awareness as to how big this problem really is. | |
| And now the United States, what's complicit? | |
| We are right dead in the middle, in the middle of it. | |
| So 6 million kids, that's a huge number. | |
| Please build that out, elaborate that more. | |
| Yeah, so if you break down the numbers, there's about 27 million people in total. | |
| That's according to most credible sources in slavery. | |
| That's men, women, and children. | |
| And the kids, that's conservative at 6 million. | |
| That's Department of Labor, state. | |
| And they are broken up into three categories, which is labor, which is the biggest one, sex trafficking, and then organ harvesting. | |
| It's 2 million specific designated for sex trafficking. | |
| And, you know, the United States, I'm so tired of people, you know, saying that that's a problem that is far, far away when, in fact, we are the number one demand. | |
| We are the consumers. | |
| We consume more child exploitation material than any other nation on the planet. | |
| And then, of course, I spent 10 years on the southern border as a special agent undercover operator for the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| And I'm watching the border and watching our policies or Biden's policies are really just complicit completely facilitating child trafficking at our southern border. | |
| So the website is ourrescue.org. | |
| So if you could build out just kind of an example of what those numbers are overwhelming, but tell us a story of something that is typical, not atypical, of an age, a behavior that is forced, movements, or who's doing this. | |
| I mean, I'll just spout it out. | |
| For example, a 45-year-old gang member in Houston who moves 10 girls from point A to point B, forces them to have sex with older. | |
| I'm just spinning off. | |
| Could you give us what is the typical thing you encounter? | |
| Because there's a lot of our audience sometimes gets confused by the abstraction. | |
| Give us what is the most typical story that you run into. | |
| Well, man, human trafficking has different faces in different places. | |
| And, you know, one story that comes to mind is, and this should hit home for all of us, a girl that we helped several years ago. | |
| She had been kidnapped, groomed in Mexico. | |
| I think she was 12 or 13 years old. | |
| And she was brought across the southern border where there was no barriers, was no enforcement. | |
| And she was taken, picked up in a van, driven to New York City. | |
| In New York City, she was there between, I want to say, 14 years old all the way until she was like 16 and finally was able to be rescued. | |
| But she was raped. | |
| This is the sick part and unbelievable. | |
| So she's taken in, and she is within a 24-hour cycle, she's sold about 10 to 15 times, just picked up, taken to this hotel, that hotel, this bar, that person's house. | |
| And it's all planned, her days planned out. | |
| And then she comes home and sleeps a few hours and goes out again. | |
| This is happening all over the United States. | |
| And so many of these kids are brought across our southern border. | |
| So the most typical thing you see then is female prostitution ages 14 to 16. | |
| Is there any law enforcement that, I'm sure there is, but do you think the government is doing all they can? | |
| Let me rephrase that. | |
| Do you think the government is doing all they can to stop that horrific practice? | |
| No, no, not at all. | |
| I mean, in the United States, there's about five anti-drug agents for every one anti-child trafficking agent. | |
| And it's really because it's not been a priority. | |
| The people haven't yelled loud enough about it. | |
| You know, what we're doing at our, like I said, the policies on the southern border, if we enforce it and build it out and build out the enforcement, you're going to rescue more kids. | |
| It's just, it's two plus two equals four. | |
| You're going to put the kids are going to have a chance to be rescued right in that place where they can be rescued. | |
| Their final hope before they get put into one of the biggest sex markets in the world, the United States, is at this port of entry. | |
| So we need to control that piece of it. | |
| And then, you know, it's really transnational. | |
| We do most of our, a lot of our work is overseas. | |
| You know, kids are being sold on the beaches. | |
| They're being sold in bars. | |
| And the age goes down, by the way. | |
| Like the average age in the U.S. is about 14. | |
| But you go to Mexico, you go to other places. | |
| Actually, you go to Hawaii. | |
| We're working in Hawaii. | |
| The ages are closer to 12, 11, 10 years old that they're being inducted into human trafficking rings. | |
| So this brings up to the upcoming, this brings us to the upcoming film, Sound of Freedom. | |
| I've been hearing about this film non-stop. | |
| They do a great job. | |
| Play cut 26, please. | |
| I don't think I can do this job, Tim. | |
| As soon as I lay down, only see other kids' faces. | |
| How long have you been doing this? | |
| 12 years? | |
| How do you do it? | |
| It is the fastest-growing international crime network that the world has ever seen. | |
| It has already passed the illegal arms trade, and soon it's going to pass the drug trade. | |
| What if this was your daughter? | |
| Wherever I go, I'll find my way home. | |
| So the film is coming out on July 4th. | |
| So just tell us about your perspective on this film. | |
| I see it kind of being publicized everywhere. | |
| It's really exciting to see this kind of momentum to expose this horrific and demonic evil. | |
| So Tim, thoughts on the film, how it ties into what you're doing. | |
| So the film, so I'm the subject of the film. | |
| Jim Caviso plays me, and it tells the story of how I went from being a government agent and why I quit. | |
| It starts in the southern border where we rescue this kid, and then we do a look for his sister, and the film takes you in. | |
| We go into Cartagena, Colombia, where we did, we pulled off one of the largest trafficking busts ever. | |
| Over 120 women and children were rescued, but it required me leaving my job. | |
| It required me because the U.S. government was telling me, come home. | |
| You know, we don't have a business there. | |
| And so it's kind of, it's a thriller. | |
| It's about finding children in the U.S., into Colombia and other places. | |
| But it's based on a true story. | |
| And all the bad guys are real. | |
| The kids are real. | |
| And it really explains what this is. | |
| But it does it in a way that I think is digestible. | |
| The filmmakers are just incredible. | |
| Angel Studios is putting it out. | |
| And we want people to go to angel.com forward slash freedom and buy tickets and make sure you're there. | |
| We want 2 million people in the theaters on the week of July 4th representing the 2 million children who are designated and currently in the commercial sex trade. | |
| So I also want to just tie two ends together. | |
| If someone is regularly viewing even legal pornography, they very well might be unintentionally contributing to a demand that keeps this beast going. | |
| Can you comment on that? | |
| Even if it's not quote-unquote child pornography, but girls get older and they usually are sourced from these networks. | |
| Please comment on that. | |
| Oh, absolutely. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| I mean, pornography creates sex addiction. | |
| Sex addiction creates the demand. | |
| I mean, there's a reason why the United States is the number one consumer of child exploitation material, also the number one consumer of pornography. | |
| And like you said, Charlie, it's absolutely true. | |
| Who are the women that you see in these videos? | |
| You think they're happy? | |
| You think they want to be there? | |
| Likely not the case. | |
| Rarely the case. | |
| These are people who likely have been trafficked, have been exploited throughout their lives, and this is the world they know. | |
| And so absolutely, every time you're looking at this and becoming addicted to it, you are generating the demand and you are creating pain in people's lives. | |
| Yeah, I don't think people always understand that. | |
| Can you just, you know, the example you gave is horrific and terrible, but from what I understand, some of the things I've heard is that some of this can happen in some of the most upper-middle-class neighborhoods, Highland Park, Texas, Wilmette, Illinois, Cherry Creek, Colorado. | |
| Is it true that there is human trafficking, child sex trafficking that sometimes occurs with CEOs, with Titans of business? | |
| Or is that not totally correct? | |
| One minute remaining, Tim. | |
| No, it is correct. | |
| There's something called the Romeo Trafficker. | |
| And these are kids, they're in good homes. | |
| They're affluent homes. | |
| But they have a boyfriend who takes a sex picture of them, sex video. | |
| They break up. | |
| He puts it on and uses basically to exploit her, to extort her and says, look, you better be putting on shows for me or make money. | |
| I want to set up an OnlyFans site. | |
| We're seeing this more and more where sextortion, we call it. | |
| And it is human trafficking and it's child exploitation. | |
| And these kids are living in their homes. | |
| They're having dinner every night with their parents, but they're living with the hell. | |
| They want to kill themselves and they think their lives are over because they got to put on this sex show or else they will be exposed and the video will be shown to their church congregation, to their mom, to their grandma. | |
| And that's a threat that young girls can't usually deal with emotionally. | |
| And it's very sad, and we need to talk more about it. | |
| It makes you think and wonder how much of that awful website, OnlyFans, are girls that have been trafficked and pimps are getting a percentage of that revenue. | |
| I have no idea. | |
| It just makes you think. | |
| Tim, stay right there. | |
| Angel.com. | |
| What a great URL. | |
| Film is coming out July 4th. | |
| It's about you. | |
| So congratulations. | |
| There are three types of people: there are children, there are predators, and the protectors of children. | |
| When you no longer are a child, you can either be a predator or you could be a protector of a child. | |
| That is the question. | |
| So, Tim, can you talk about the role that social media plays? | |
| The landscape has changed, and I think people like you are getting us caught up. | |
| The bad guys, the predators, the cartels, the freaks, the pedophiles, they have used social media far, very aggressively to source and find young girls and children. | |
| And I'm sure it plays a big role in this. | |
| And finally, you are catching up to be able to intercept that. | |
| We know that the Instagram algorithm connects vast networks of pedophiles. | |
| Maybe Instagram should be more concerned about that than right-wing extremism on their platform. | |
| Tim Ballard, your thoughts? | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| Look, we have to find the access points. | |
| There's access points all around where pedophiles access kids. | |
| Now, if you're my age or older, you didn't have to deal with that. | |
| And so, you know, our access points were playgrounds, you know, parks, that kind of thing where they could access us. | |
| And so parents my age and older, we are confused. | |
| There's a generational gap, an educational gap, and kids are left exposed, and no one's teaching them what the access points are today. | |
| It's social media, like you just said. | |
| And to find out that big tech is not doing what they could be doing or should be doing to protect kids, in fact, they're allowing their algorithms to be utilized in a way that's benefiting this black market. | |
| I mean, it's $150 billion a year business. | |
| This is huge. | |
| So they have to find those market platforms, and social media is the number one. | |
| I executive produced a documentary that just came out. | |
| It's on Amazon Prime. | |
| It's called It's Happening Right Here. | |
| And we dive deep into all the things, all the access points here in the United States that are utilized for predators to get a hold of our children. | |
| So we've been focusing on young women. | |
| Talk about boys. | |
| I mean, there was a graphic story in Georgia of a gay couple who adopted two young boys and sodomized them. | |
| I'm just going to, I'm not going to go to the details. | |
| It's disgusting, but it's necessary to mention. | |
| Are boys increasingly in demand with these freaks and these pedophiles in the black market of child sex trafficking? | |
| Absolutely, they are, and it's underreported. | |
| And absolutely. | |
| I mean, there's a big push for that. | |
| There's a group, you've heard of probably Nambla, the North American Man, Boy, Love Association. | |
| They've been pushing this agenda for quite some time. | |
| I did an operation last year that was enormous. | |
| It started in Ukraine, blew through six countries, three continents, ended in Ecuador. | |
| It was a Dutch pedophile group. | |
| They were trying to legalize sex with children. | |
| They got caught. | |
| They got arrested and they were fugitives. | |
| And they were trying to find Ukrainian kids who were war victims. | |
| It led us in July of last year to a little boutique hotel in a little village called Kanoa, Ecuador. | |
| And these guys had little boys, 10 years old and younger. | |
| And they were bringing them in, luring them in, grooming them. | |
| And they were advertising to their pedophile networks, come here, come enjoy a weekend and have all the sex with boys 10 years old and younger that you want. | |
| Fortunately, we were able to track them down and end them and dismantle them completely. | |
| They just got convicted actually three days ago. | |
| So we see these cases often. | |
| Little boys are everybody is vulnerable, and that's something else we need to wake up to protect our young boys as well. | |
| So in closing here, Tim, have you seen any noticeable change of federal law enforcement towards this? | |
| Was it better under Trump? | |
| Is it better under Biden? | |
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| I'm not leading the questioner. | |
| I'm genuinely curious, or has it gotten worse in recent years? | |
| Well, look, we work closely with all the agencies, and I think they continue at their same passion level. | |
| And they're trying to do what they can with the resources they're given. | |
| Absolutely, under Trump, Lovemorrow or Hayden, it doesn't matter that he deployed $300 million to fight human trafficking. | |
| He built a barrier and border enforcement and walls for one reason to protect children. | |
| He appointed me. | |
| I was actually the co-chair of the White House Council to end human trafficking. | |
| So I know very well what was going on. | |
| And probably there's been no administration in my lifetime that has been doing more for that. | |
| He talked about it quite a bit. | |
| Ivanka was actually a major push behind that. | |
| So it's unfortunate that we see this administration. | |
| I hardly hear them talk about it. | |
| Again, I'm not talking about the agencies or the agents on the ground, my colleagues at Homeland Security. | |
| I mean, they're the best and they're doing everything they can, but they want more resources. | |
| And that starts at the top. | |
| And so, yeah, I would love to see a change in regimes here in the United States. | |
| Sure. | |
| To put more focus, once again, on this problem that's the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. | |
| Yeah, I mean, just the last point I'll say, and Tim, we're out of time, is that I have to be screamed at by these purple-haired weirdos on campus about how America was a terrible country because there was slavery that existed in the 1780s and 90s. | |
| I say, wake up. | |
| There's more slaves today in the North American continent. | |
| Just look at the pornography industry. | |
| They might not be called slaves. | |
| They might be wearing handcuffs all the time, but they're effectively slaves. | |
| Tim Ballard, congratulations on the film, July 4th. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Thank you so much for listening, and God bless. | |
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